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We have all the evidence that the solutions are scalable, and [if we act decisively] we would become winners in terms of modernity, security, peace and health, but also in terms of equity.

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to U.S. pianist Paul Cornish.

Natural resources and strategic alliances are important to understanding why Venezuela is in the eye of the storm.

It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.

In an interview with BdF, Paulo Nogueira Jr. analyzes the transformation of the international order to multipolarity.

This interview was first posted by Bibliocracy Radio and broadcast on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. Click here to listen. Thursday, Sept 11 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is the writer and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster on his work in helping Monthly Review Press republish the classic Albert […]

How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Smartest Man Ever was a Socialist This interview and the following article were originally posted by A Public Affair on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison, Wisconsin. In the United States, Albert Einstein isn’t well known for his views on socialism. But in 1949, he wrote a salient essay for the […]

A feminist activist reflects on legislative advances, ongoing challenges, and the state of sexual and reproductive rights in Venezuela.

In celebration of Fanon’s centenary, we repost an interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher Frantz Fanon.

A young activist talks about maroon resistance has deep roots in Venezuela, and it resonates with the country’s current communal project.

This interview was conducted by Zhao Dingqi for the journal World Socialism Studies. Zhao Dingqi: You once pointed out that the MAGA movement is essentially an alliance between the monopolistic capitalist right wing and the lower middle class. How do you understand the reasons behind the formation of this alliance, and how does it reflect […]

Interview with French decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja.

A new book tells the story of revolutionary feminist economist Nora Castañeda, who attempted to empower women through an innovative state bank.

Rashid Khalidi, the renowned Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, says he is withdrawing from teaching his fall course after the school has agreed to pay a $200 million settlement in a major new deal with President Trump, who accused the university of failing to protect Jewish students during campus protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza.

VP: “Marxism, which is an ever-evolving field of analysis, is the most accurate critique of capitalism. As long as capitalism remains with us, Marxism must remain until another form of critique—better than Marxism—appears.”

A communal leader and mayoral candidate explains how the July 27 elections could mark a turn toward women’s leadership and people’s power in her township.

CounterSpin interview with Victor Pickard on Paramount settlement.

We publish here the text of one of the last interviews with Georges Lukács, given to Hungarian television. The interview was prepared and conducted by András Kovács. Lukács talks about his youth and the influence Lenin had on his own development as a revolutionary activist.

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.